CVE-2019-3799 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Spring Cloud Config, versions 2.1.x prior to 2.1.2, versions 2.0.x prior to 2.0.4, and versions 1.4.x prior to 1.4.6, and older unsupported versions allow applications to serve arbitrary configuration files through the spring-cloud-config-server module. A malicious user, or attacker, can send a request using a specially crafted URL that can lead a directory traversal attack.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.91318.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Oracle	Communications Cloud Native Core Policy
Vmware	Spring Cloud Config

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:vmware:spring_cloud_config::::::::

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:oracle:communications_cloud_native_core_policy:1.15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Github GHSA	GHSA-4x49-w62v-76q7	Path Traversal in Spring Cloud Config

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3799
https://pivotal.io/security/cve-2019-3799
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3799
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.82989}`	epss `{'score': 0.91318}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: dell

Published: 2019-05-06T15:21:37.135488Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T00:16:21.820Z

Reserved: 2019-01-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2019-3799

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-06T16:29:01.567

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:42:33.827

Link: CVE-2019-3799

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-3799 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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